The Artistic Director of Australia’s award-winning Back to Back Theatre Company speaks to Paul F Cockburn about the shows he’s bringing to this August’s Edinburgh International Festival. “We’re a theatre company that doesn’t work from existing scripts,” explains Bruce Gladwin, the Artistic Director of Back to Back Theatre – a successful Australian theatre company for performers […]
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Gale Force
Everybody loves Robert Softley Gale. He may not be a household name, but in the world of Scottish theatre, you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn’t a good word to say about him. That includes the good folk at Creative Scotland; he’s one of 20 artists selected by them to create new work […]
The Mile, by Craig A Smith
Three Scotsmen walk into a bar… It could be the set up for a joke. To an extent it is–a humorous conceit transposing personal, metaphorical journeys onto a physical, geographical stagger down the length of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, from the historic Castle at the top via its most prominent public houses to outside the Scottish […]
The Other Scott Monuments
When you grow up in Edinburgh, it’s hard not to do so in the shadow of Sir Walter Scott, or at least the gigantic Victorian-gothic space rocket erected to his memory in the heart of the Scottish capital. However, while allegedly the largest monument to a writer in the world (standing 200 feet six inches, […]
The Normal and Uncanny in Doctor Who
Much has changed about Doctor Who during the last 50 years, including the personification of its lead character. Yet, much has remained the same; not least the show’s innate preference to place the strange and uncanny, the weird and alien, within a framework of everyday normality. Paul F Cockburn investigates. “Thinking about it, if there […]
Unlimited 2014 launch
A new programme celebrating and supporting disabled artists and disability art was launched on Monday in Glasgow. Paul F Cockburn was there. New work from some of Britain’s most exciting disabled artists will help build on the success of London’s Cultural Olympiad in 2012, and both sustain and develop disability arts across the UK, according […]
Q&A Nick Brooks
Your new novel, Indecent Acts, explores the daily struggles of Grace, a semi-illiterate 40-something mother from Drumchapel. What inspired you to write her story? The germ of the novel came about while I was organising literacies groups around west Glasgow. I found that the way some people wrote, that was a source of shame or […]
